New laptop for Dennis!!!

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:16:37 -0500, spikedriver spun a fine yarn

woooo-hooooo, Dennis, and Gail too! Noreen REALLY going now.

Thank you Noreen!

Dennis & Gail

Woohoo! Enjoy!

Higs, Kather> Gail purchased me a new laptop! A 17" AVERATEC, with an AMD 64

Dennis,

Enjoy your new laptop!

Are you a ham? If so, what are your call letters? My parents are both hams in Fla. My mother uses the computer and my father, only the ham radio, having very little to do with the computer. He asks my mother, who is somewhat computer challenged, how to do things. She's also the only one of the 2 who knits or crochets. LOL

Janise

Thank you Katherine. Dennis

Janise,

My call is KA9DVS, Gail likes the dvs part. :)

What are their call letters? I will listen for them if I know where they hang out on the radio. Please email me if you prefer.

I have been a ham many year before I was married. It is the only hobby I love as much as chrochet and knitting. I love the computers but, after doing them for a living for so many years I tire of them fast. I do have 4 of them networked together with the laptop. I can set on the laptop get all of my music, pictures, documents and other stuff, with out putting on my laptop and print to the printer. I can print the free patterns from the internet, wi-fi is nice.

Please reply Janise, I always enjoy meeting new hams. Gail is N9TNX.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis & Gail

Dennis lucky you, enjoy, without any hickups....LOL

Els

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:16:37 -0500, spikedriver spewed forth :

Too bad you're so far away. My MIL has a 60' radio antenna in her back yard that she'd like to have disappear.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

Well, as long as we're checking in with callsigns, mine is K4HZY. ;)

I'm an Extra Class and a VE (Volunteer Examiner, for you non-hams) with the ARRL/VEC.

And Dennis, I understand completely about the love-hate relationship with computers after being "in the business" since 1982 as everything from a programmer to a project manager. Now it's get on, do what I need to do, and get off of it. lol

Nyssa, who finished yet-another-knitted-string large shopping bag last night, this one in purple

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Congratulations, and enjoy... both the gift AND your wife! LOL! Hugs to both of you! AUD ;-)

Thank you Nyssa,

I enjoy teaching and giving test the most of all. I help teach many ham classes at the local junior college.

I spend most of my time on 40 and 20 meter cw at.046. I worked to get to 20 wpm to get that extra license, I want to keep code speed up.

What frequency do you frequent?

I used crochet bags and pass them to my square exchange partners and a few others.

Els,

I hope I don't have any trouble for a while.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis & Gail

I don't climb any more, I have to ask for help. I sure would take it down if I was close. I been up over a 100 feet many time on a tower. I can't climb any more.

Hugs & God bless Dennis & Gail

Thank you Aud,

We will both use it a lot.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis & Gail

I don't frequent any frequencies these days...no antennas!

I've got a 10m rig and a 2m all mode, but no way to get out. I've got a tri-band HT, but listen more than talk since I'm out in the boonies and 5 watts doesn't get ya too far.

I try to do code practice a couple or three times a week to keep from backsliding. I sweated bullets learning the stuff, and I'll be doggoned if I'm going to lose it!

I've knitted three of these shopping bags so far and gave two away to friends who use them regularly. If the trend starting over in Europe over taxing or charging for plastic shopping bags finds its way across the pond, I want everyone to be ready. lol

Dennia and Nyssa,

I have forwarded your call signs to my parents. Theirs are WB2FKR (my father) and WB2TDR (my mother), although you will never hear my mother on the radio. She is the computer person. LOL

BTW Nyssa, What pattern do you use for your knit sh>

I used the free pattern that came from Patternworks with the purchase of a skein of the Euroflax linen, with some modifications.

I did one bag in the linen, but I've done three more using Sugar N Cream yarn. It takes three balls of SnC to make one large bag.

The main modifications I've made to the original pattern are to use a provisional cast on for both the beginning round and the cast on for the top band. Makes the fold-over and knitting the two stitches together much easier. And doing the final inside out turn on circulars so I don't lose stitches off of the back of the straight needles the pattern calls for.

For the record, the linen bag is lighter weight and stronger than the cotton, but for the price difference in yarn, the SnC make more affordable gifts. And if you're not trying to carry a bowling ball, the cotton bags are plenty strong.

My hint: buy one skein of the Euroflax and request the free bag pattern. Make one linen bag for yourself, then go nuts doing a gaggle of them in cotton for gifts. :)

Nyssa, always on the lookout for frugal alternatives

Hello to all of you. Wow, more needleworking hams! I should introduce myself. I knit and crochet but nothing too complicated and not near as productively as most of you. I also make beaded jewelry (I run a micro-business) and handmade cards and do a bit of occassional sewing. I have been enjoying reading this group. My husband and I are also both radio hams (he is N5KZW and I am KA5DYF.) I haven't been as active on the since I got my defibrillator installed though (don't want to accidently set it off.) We are mostly retired and have a grown son and an older black lab mix dog and live near Austin, TX.

Irene de KA5DYF

Hi Irene, and Welcome,

I guess we should keep a list of all the Needleworking hams here. LOL When I was young and my father had just gotten started on his own radioing, I thought about studying to become a ham, but never did. It's probably just as well. I use the computer and he only uses his radio.

Janise